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Modern Art Reinforcement: The mutual reinforcement of religious liberty and of civil rights in association, speech, and publication have been important in modern art reinforcement and contemporary experience. Religious conviction and motivation have often nerved men to strive for their rights.
Reinforcement for the idea that the Mayan economy rested on a delicate balance of nature and human activity was supplied by R. E. Reina. His intensive study of modern art reinforcement corn-growing practices in the Peten indicated that the land was not capable in itself of sustaining a population such as was present there in classic Maya times. Even under more favorable climatic conditions and with other food resources in addition to maize, careful cultivation would have been necessary.
Each individual image reacted with its neighbor in sympathetic reinforcement or in violent opposition. The process was no doubt inspired by the introduction into abstract paintings of printed matter— usually newspaper clippings—and small objects that were glued to the canvas. Hence these works were referred to as collages, from the French verb caller, meaning "to glue."
The beginning of photomontage as an artistic medium may be traced to the Dada group of modern art reinforcement painters. Wieland Herzfelde, the brother of the brilliant photo-monteur John Heartfield,* described the process in the catalog of the first Berlin Dada exhibition in 1920: |
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